Taxonomy and Biogeography without frontiers - WhatsApp, Facebook and smartphone digital photography let citizen scientists in more remote localities step out of the dark Author Suprayitno, Nano Author Narakusumo, Raden Pramesa Author von Rintelen, Thomas Author Hendrich, Lars Author Balke, Michael text Biodiversity Data Journal 2017 5 19938 19938 http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.5.e19938 journal article http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.5.e19938 1314-2828--19938 Microdytes elgae Hendrich, Balke & Wewalka, 1995 Microdytes elgae Hendrich and Balke 1995 : 42; Aube 1838 : 177; Nilsson and Hajek 2017 : 202. Materials Type status: Other material . Occurrence: recordNumber: BALI_NS_2016_07; recordedBy: Suprayitno ; individualCount: 7 ; lifeStage: adult ; Taxon: scientificName: Microdyteselgae; class: Insecta; order: Coleoptera; family: Dytiscidae; Location: island: Bali; country: Indonesia ; stateProvince: Bali; county: Tabanan; locality: Jl. Raya Apuan Senganan - Baturiti ; verbatimElevation: 600m ; locationRemarks: https://goo.gl/maps/DwRBDdgGPwp; decimalLatitude: -8.362083 ; decimalLongitude: 115.180111 ; Event: samplingProtocol: collected with strainer ; eventDate: 2016-09-04 ; Record Level: institutionCode: MZB ; collectionCode: Entomology ; ownerInstitutionCode: Museum Zoologicum Bogoriense Type status: Other material . Occurrence: recordNumber: BALI_NS_2016_35; recordedBy: Suprayitno ; individualCount: 1 ; lifeStage: adult ; Taxon: scientificName: Microdyteselgae; class: Insecta; order: Coleoptera; family: Dytiscidae; Location: island: Bali; country: Indonesia ; stateProvince: Bali; county: Buleleng; locality: Ds. Selat, Sukasada ; verbatimElevation: 180m ; locationRemarks: https://goo.gl/maps/DVC4v6KZQ2R2; decimalLatitude: -8.174688 ; decimalLongitude: 115.066921 ; Event: samplingProtocol: collected with strainer ; eventDate: 2016-05-31 ; Record Level: institutionCode: MZB ; collectionCode: Entomology ; ownerInstitutionCode: Museum Zoologicum Bogoriense Type status: Other material . Occurrence: recordNumber: BALI_NS_2017_56; recordedBy: Suprayitno ; individualCount: 22 ; lifeStage: adult ; Taxon: scientificName: Microdyteselgae; class: Insecta; order: Coleoptera; family: Dytiscidae; Location: island: Bali; country: Indonesia ; stateProvince: Bali; county: Tabanan; locality: Jl. Bantas - Pajahan - Pupuan ; verbatimElevation: 500m ; locationRemarks: https://goo.gl/maps/2JtWBirCLHR2; decimalLatitude: -8.345852 ; decimalLongitude: 114.994454 ; Event: samplingProtocol: collected with strainer ; eventDate: 2017-01-26 ; Record Level: institutionCode: MZB ; collectionCode: Entomology ; ownerInstitutionCode: Museum Zoologicum Bogoriense Type status: Other material . Occurrence: recordNumber: BA5; recordedBy: Hendrich & Balke ; individualCount: 2 ; lifeStage: adult ; Taxon: scientificName: Microdyteselgae; class: Insecta; order: Coleoptera; family: Dytiscidae; Location: island: Bali; country: Indonesia ; stateProvince: Bali; locality: Bedugul, Candi Kuning ; verbatimElevation: 1320m ; decimalLatitude: -8.253661 ; decimalLongitude: 115.173608 ; Event: samplingProtocol: collected with strainer ; eventDate: 1990-08-27 and 1991-07-11 ; Record Level: institutionCode: ZSM etc ; collectionCode: Entomology ; datasetName: Zooligical State Collection Munich; ownerInstitutionCode: Zooligical State Collection Munich; basisOfRecord: Entomology; informationWithheld: Zooligical State Collection Munich Distribution in Bali See Fig. 30. Geographic range outside Bali Widespread through the SE Paleartic region and SE Asia (Bhutan, Indonesia [Bali, Lombok, Kalimantan], Malaysia [Peninsula, Sarawak], Singapore) ( Balke et al. 1999 , Hendrich et al. 2004 ). Ecology Microdytes elgae inhabits small shaded or semishaded helocrenes as well as small streams in shaded forest environments. The beetles usually hide beneath leaves and in the gravel under only a very thin film of water ( Hendrich et al. 2004 ) (Figs 31, 32).